The holo hook up April 2017 had the theme ”Bucket List” and contained polishes from Cupcake Polish, Different Dimension, and Glisten & Glow, and the guest maker of the month Delush Polish.

I’ve written about The Holo Hookup a couple of times before. You can find those posts here. Short about the holo hookup. It’s a monthly collaboration between the indie makers Cupcake polish, Different Dimension and Glisten & Glow with a new guest every month. They all create a holo polish each on a specific theme. The box can be pre-order during one week.

Today I thought I would show you Colors By Llarowe (CBL) Valentine’s collection 2017. It’s a while since it was Valentine’s Day but these aren’t typical Valentine’s Day shades and the polishes are still available.

Colors by Llarowe Valentine’s day collection 2017 contains a total of six shades with a couple of different finishes. av totalt sex lack med olika finish.

Here you’ll find You Sexy Thing a deep plum with pink and blue shimmer, the beautiful deep red holo Hearts on Fire, the green holo That Little Green Monster and the deep purple with a hint of fuchsia holo Who Needs Love?, the blueish purple jelly with pink shimmer Let’s Get Freaky (this one has a sheerer formula and requires 3-4 thinn coats to receive a opaque result) and last but not least we have It’s A Gift which is a flakie with multi chrome flakes in different sizes and glitter in a blackened burgundy jelly base. I’ve swatched It’s a gift over navy blue polish Formula X Midnight from Sephora.

A while ago I ordered some thermal polishes from Joy Lacquer. Brand New Black Pack that you can see here above was one of them. If you’re not familiar with thermal polishes it is nail polishes that changes color depending on the temperature. I realized that I had very few thermals so I decided to get some more to try. This time the choice fell on some from Joy Lacquer.

Joy Lacquer Brand New Black Pack gets darker when it gets cold. The photo taken with flash is taken after I had cooled down the nails with cold water. If you have long nails the tip of the nails will look a bit darker then the rest of the nails. You can see this on the other photos where I haven’t dipped my fingers in cold water. The difference isn’t very noticeable but if you look closely you can see that the tips of my nails are a bit darker then the rest of the nail.

Brand New Black Pack was a bit thick in the formula which might be because of the thermal powder in it. It was still ok to work with.

I found some photos of Black Cat Lacquer Dance All Night on my computer. Dance All Night is from A Box – Indied January 2015 so unfortunately it’s not possible to buy this amazing polish any longer.

The theme of the box that Black Cat Lacquer Dance All Night came in was ”New Debts, New Diets, NEW POLISH”. So a new year.

Dance All Night is incredible beautiful! It’s like having a magical night sky on the nails. The polish is a black jelly stuffed with glitter of different sizes, shapes and colors. You’ll find multi colored hexes of different sizes and holographic stars and crescents. I absolutely love this polish! I think I need to find this in my stash so I can use it again.

KBShimmer Purr-fectly Paw-some is a nice muted pastel blue holographic polish with steel grey and lavender undertones. Last Saturday we had sun here and I really wanted to wear a holo polish. It felt like ages ago when I last used a holo polish. This time my choice was KBShimmer Purr-fectly Paw-some.

KBShimmer Purr-fectly Paw-some is a linear holo and so pretty. I love using holos when it’s sunny so I wear holos a lot during spring and summer but I haven’t been using holos much lately. It was definitely time to change that.

The shade is based on the 2016 Pantone sprin/summer color Serenity. The formula is nice and it covers in two thin coats. Purr-fectly Paw-some is still available for those interested in getting this for themselves.

CbL Holiday 2016 is a lovely collection so I thought I’d show it to you. I know that the holiday’s are over but these pretty polishes works just as well now. Do let’s take a little break from the spring collections and looks at the holiday collection from CbL.

CbL Holiday 2016 contains nine shades. Two of them are toppers and are supposed to be worn over other shades. The two toppers are Belle de Louvain and Ho Ho Ho It’s Santa Llarowe. Belle de Louvain can be used on its own but then it takes 3-4 coats to get coverage. I’ve used OPI Never Have Too Many Friends from The Hello Kitty collection underneath both Belle de Louvain and Ho Ho Ho It’s Santa Llarowe here above.

I like all of the polishes in this collection. They look lovely and are easy to work with. One of the blues, Wind Chill, was a bit sheer though and it took four coats to get it opaque. The info said 2-3 shades but then it was still sheer for me. I’ve used four shades in the photos above. The others are two shades. Except for the toppers. I’ve used one coat of Belle de Louvain and two of Ho Ho ho it’s Santa Llarowe.

The KBShimmer polishes above are all from earlier years holiday collections. If I’m not mistaken these are from the 2013, 2014 and 2015 years holiday collection. I haven’t had time to try their holiday collection 2016 yet and I’m not sure where I have it. It takes some time to get everything in order after you’ve moved. Until then I thought I give you some holiday feelings with these oldies but goodies from KBShimmer.

I’m on holiday this week too. Unfortunately we don’t have any snow at all here so it doesn’t feel like the winter holidays. Well if the weather is working against you then you’ll have to do what you can to get in Christmas spirit. For me that means Holiday inspired nail polish. The ones you can see above are fun for the holidays. If you followed my old blog then you might have seen some of these before since I have blogged about some of them before. Others I haven’t blogged about. I think all of them have been on my Instagram at one time or another.

CBL Rapture and CBL Bring Us The Girl are both Harlow & exclusives. If you ask me these are both very nice shades. Maybe more of spring and summer shades but we have had such boring weather in Stockholm that I feel the need for some color.

CBL Rapture is a beautiful turquoise blue holo and är CBL Bring us the Girl is a pretty apricot pink holo. I love holiday so I really miss the sun. Holos looks so much more sparkly and fun in the sun.

These photos are both taken this spring. Both Rapture and Bring Us The Girl are on sale for at €11.93 right now. Harlow & Co also have some other nice CBL polishes for sale at the moment.

I ordered three flakies from Colors by Llarowe (CBL) at their sale of outgoing colors. The same time as I ordered the gorgeous triple chrome polish Red light yellow light green light go! The flakies I bought was Mickey, The eyebrows and Jackie.

When I tried my first flakie from La Femme Flocado a while back I loved it so much that I knew I needed more of these. When Llarowe had a sale on outgoing colors and I found some flakies amongst them I didn’t hesitate. My choices where Mickey, The Eyebrows and Jackie that you see here above. All of them are showed over a black nail polish as base color. My favorites are Jackie and The Eyebrows. The Eyebrows reminds me a bit about the one I have from La Femme Flocado.

Esmaltes da Kelly has made a Disney Princesses and Villains collection. I have here the Esmaltes da Kelly Little Mermaid polishes for you. Ariel and Ursula. All the polishes in this collection are glitters.

My first impression of these are that Ariel and Ursula are very similar. Both are green glitters. Ursula is a bit more poisones green though. I still would have wish the two was more different. Like Ariel and Ursula.

Both Esmaltes da Kelly Little Mermaid polishes looks beautiful. And both are packed with glitter! Unfortunately the formula of these gives a little more to wish for. They are incredible thick. That makes it really hard to get a nice and even manicure out of them. It’s almost Impossible to even spread the polish over the nails with the brush. This could perhaps be because of air in the bottles. Both bottles where unused but their where still nailpolish between the cap and the bottle making them hard to open. That can also have caused air getting in to the bottle making the base thicken.

No matter the reason both polishes when straight in to the garbage. Some of the thickness can be because the polishes are so packed with glitter but the base is also really thick. This makes them almost impossible to paint with. Too bad on such beautiful polishes.

CBL Red Light Yellow Light Green Light Go! is a truly amazing nail polish. And yes it shifts colors so this post contains a lot of photos and a video. The color shifts depending on light and the angel you look at it from. I love it. All photos in this post is of the same nail polish. Kind of hard to believe right?

As you might remember I mentioned in my post about the polishes from the CBL Overboard collection that they where having a sale on outgoing colors. Of course I had to buy some polishes that where missing in my collection. One of those where CBL Red Light Yellow Light Green Light Go! I can’t say I regret buying it. It’s truly amazing. It’s almost impossible to believe that one polish can look so different just depending on the light and the angel you look at it from.

Pencils of Promise Founding Story

It began with a question. A small boy begging in the streets of India. “What do you want most in the world?”“A pencil,” he replied.

I reached into my backpack, handed him my pencil, and watched as a wave of possibility washed over him.A smile erupted and his eyes brightened. I then saw the profound power and promise brought through something as small as giving a pencil to just one child. Over the next five years, I backpacked through more than 50 countries, handing out thousands of pens and pencils across six continents. These pencils, these small pieces of potential, led to powerful conversations with local parents and children across countless cultures and languages. From years of listening to their words, it became clear that there was a need for an international nonprofit that was led on-the-ground by a staff of locals from within each country, required village participation in each school, and deeply supported, trained and tracked each student to ensure their success. These are the guidelines on which PoP was founded in October 2008.

Powder Perfect – Promise Duo is the Harlow ONE duo for August 2016. Every month Harlow & Co partners up with a different indie brand to release a limited edition duo exclusive for their shop. 1 CAD from each sold bottle is the donated to a charity of that brand’s choice. This month it was Powder Perfect that created the polishes.

Powder Perfect created the Promise duo. The polishes are only sold together for 31 CAD from which 2 CAD goes to the Pencils of Promise foundation. Pencils of Promise started with the founder meeting a small boy begging for money on the streets of India and asked him what he wanted most in life. A pencil he replied. Which he got. Well that is how it started. Now Pencils of Promises has built 363 schools since 2009.

Pencils of Promise Founding Story

It began with a question. A small boy begging in the streets of India. “What do you want most in the world?”“A pencil,” he replied.

I reached into my backpack, handed him my pencil, and watched as a wave of possibility washed over him.A smile erupted and his eyes brightened. I then saw the profound power and promise brought through something as small as giving a pencil to just one child. Over the next five years, I backpacked through more than 50 countries, handing out thousands of pens and pencils across six continents. These pencils, these small pieces of potential, led to powerful conversations with local parents and children across countless cultures and languages. From years of listening to their words, it became clear that there was a need for an international nonprofit that was led on-the-ground by a staff of locals from within each country, required village participation in each school, and deeply supported, trained and tracked each student to ensure their success. These are the guidelines on which PoP was founded in October 2008.

Isn’t that just the perfect charity to be giving to in back to school times?

The polishes in the Powder Perfect Promise Duo are Profound Promise a apple green holo polish and Magic of Imagination a hot pink jelly with lots of holographic micro glitters in it.

I really like both of these really vivid polishes. I get happy just by looking at them. And hopefully the duos sold will help some kid get the opportunity to go to school and get an education.